Cheapo Bike Cam

[Aikman666]

Roiiight, im thinking of putting together a cheap bike cam for a laugh. Basicly ive got an old digital camera that no one uses anymore. Ive already got the rechargables and im planning on buying a bigger SD card for it (plenty of action ). BUT ive got a few queries:
According to the PC, it records at 7fps: is this fast enough?
Will the cam be able to cope with vibrations? (dont care if it breaks)
Where is the best place to mount it?
How is the best method of mounting it?
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[T1z3R]

7fps is pretty poor but will work.
i dont think it would break due to vibrations. what kind make.model of camera is it?
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[Aikman666]

Its a 'Mercury Deluxe Classic cam' although ive seen the exact design used by numerous companies. The cam is hard as nails, and i used it to shoot a skating video not long back and it done an ok (seeable) job. According to windows it records at 320x240 pixels too
Pictures of the wondercam attatched (its not as big as it looks).
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[mr.z]

[T1z3R]

could just stick it to the front side of a mirror?

what bike will it be fitted to?

the FPS and resolution aren't that great but will still work fine i reckon.
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[Aikman666]

What i was thinking was that there is a spare tapped hole where my ( i think its left hand side) mirror should be, i could get my dad( or i could do it if there wasnt so much shit in the garage) to whip up an adapter bolt, one side into the mirror mount, other side into the tripod mount on the camera, and fasten some cable ties round.

*Edit: forgot to mention, will be fitted to the RX50
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[mr.z]

This

https://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~noriba74/images/bike/cxbars.jpg

Is how i had mine setup, i'll post a clip of the resulting vid
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[EuropeanNC30R...]

7fps , my camera records at 15fps and I wouldn't consider it with that.

[T1z3R]

if the camera has the thread on the bottom for mounting on a tripod then you could pick up a shoe for it and make up a bracket from that and and old mirror stalk so you could mount it to any standard diametre mirror stalk mount on most bikes.
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[Aikman666]

I took this little tester video last night when i first gave birth to the idea. The video seems a bit choppy, but thats because the acctual visulisations are choppy. The only grudge i would have is that as soon as light levels drop, the quality goes to shit.
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[mr.z]

This is off a DV2000, cheapo camera 15fps (as in the pic)

Lightlevel changes make these go a bit mad, can take 5/6 seconds to sort itself out (which is quite a long time)
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[Aikman666]

Seems not bad at all, still good at high speeds? I will try shooting the camera out the window of a car, if it looks ok i'll drag the bike out the garage tommorow, and have a look at my options. If the camera sucks, i'll resort to cash converters Sometimes they have good, reasonably priced crap in! Thanks for all the help guys, i'll repost tommorow with what happens!
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[-Savage-]

what program can i use to open those .rar files?
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[T1z3R]

winrar mate.

www.rarlab.com
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[Rookie]

WinRAR. Much better than Winzip, and handle .zip files as well.